{"id":1429,"date":"2014-05-30T11:55:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T18:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2014-06-09T12:44:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T19:44:06","slug":"the-top-10-user-testing-bad-habits-and-how-to-fix-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/30\/the-top-10-user-testing-bad-habits-and-how-to-fix-them\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Top 10 User Testing Bad Habits (and How to Fix Them)&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UserTesting.com has a great article up about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usertesting.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/27\/the-top-10-user-testing-bad-habits-and-how-to-fix-them\/\">The Top 10 User Testing Bad Habits (and How to Fix Them)<\/a>. \u00a0I disagree with their #1 (it feels more like an ad for their product than a bad habit). \u00a0The rest is a great reminder about how to get a user study right. \u00a0I really liked this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>#6 Do a data dump<br \/>\nIf you run the study, then you\u2019re familiar with everything \u2014 the instructions, the tasks, the results. But if you just hand the data and the video recordings to someone else, they may be overwhelmed. You need to summarize the results, draw conclusions, and present a cohesive summary to your team and stakeholders, not just hand them a lot of data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes! \u00a0The job of a user researcher is not to take dictation. \u00a0The job of a user researcher is to collect and analyze the data. \u00a0I see too many researchers doing a great job of collecting data and not a great job of analyzing the data. \u00a0You know the data better than anyone else. Do the analysis so that your team knows what matters and what action to take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UserTesting.com has a great article up about\u00a0The Top 10 User Testing Bad Habits (and How to Fix Them). \u00a0I disagree with their #1 (it feels more like an ad for their product than a bad habit). \u00a0The rest is a great reminder about how to get a user study right. \u00a0I really liked this one: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/30\/the-top-10-user-testing-bad-habits-and-how-to-fix-them\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Top 10 User Testing Bad Habits (and How to Fix Them)&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}